hey! the north branch do connect to greenbay road and you can take that all the way to kenosha. i've taken that route before once and it took us about 5 hours for a 100 miles one way trip. kettle is super awesome specially if you take the connector trail between j. muir and emma karlin with a total distance of about 32 mile loop. i normally do a brick workout there of riding for 20 miles and run 4 miles. too bad no lake there to swim and i can do my own xterra style triathlon. palos is super technical with gnurly downhill and 2 feet drops, to log ramps. the sigle tracks are more technical than kettle. when i get bored and have the urge to ride trails i normally go to palos since it's only 45 minute drive from where i live in irving park and california. this weekend i'm going on a camping/mt. biking trip to southern illinois in peoria area and check out 3-4 mt. bike trails there. another cool mt. bike trail is fort custer rec. park in battle creek michigan. i think it's better than kettle moraine south and palos combine plus they have camp sites.

Mercer County Park near Hamilton, NJ is a really flat trail system, mostly single track. Deep in the woods we found a stuffed animal church congregation, complete with wooden pews, alter and podium. All stuffed animals, sitting silently staring at the "priest" whos also stuffed. Pretty freaky.

I was cycling up currahee mountain in Toccoa GA last week and on the way down I passed a dude in a car apparently cooking some meth in his car. My buddy who lives down there says its an epidemic crossing all social and economic boundries. Pretty strange to see halfway up a mountain but a reminder that these problems are everywhere.